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Definition of Crankle
1. v. t. To break into bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle.
2. v. i. To bend, turn, or wind.
3. n. A bend or turn; a twist; a crinkle.
Definition of Crankle
1. Noun. a bend, twist or crinkle ¹
2. Verb. to bend or twist ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Crankle
1. to crinkle [v -KLED, -KLING, -KLES] - See also: crinkle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crankle
Literary usage of Crankle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Technological Dictionary: English-Spanish and Spanish-English of Words and by Néstor Ponce de León (1920)
"... repliegue ^ "" *f°> bend of a river, crankle. repoblar (fish.) to restock a pond.
lie — (mar.) rechange. ..."
2. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1872)
"The name however is very widely spread, and is found in some of the languages in
the extremity of Siberia. Crank. — crankle. — Crinkle. ..."
3. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"Spec, flyer, blow (chiefly in "sidewinder"). wind, n. curve (contextual), turn,
twist; epec. twine, meander, coil, circuit, curl, curling, roll, crankle ..."
4. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"To crankle, (krang'-kl) ra To break into unequal surfaces, or angles.
CRANNIED, (kran'-ne-ed) o. Full of chinks. ..."
5. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"1.148; cranks, pi. bends, turnings, Two Noble Kinsmen, i. 2. 28; Spenser, FQ vii.
7. 52. crankle, to twist and turn about. Drayton, Pol. vii. 198; xii. ..."
6. Technological Dictionary: English-Spanish and Spanish-English of Words and by Néstor Ponce de León (1920)
"... repliegue ^ "" *f°> bend of a river, crankle. repoblar (fish.) to restock a pond.
lie — (mar.) rechange. ..."
7. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1872)
"The name however is very widely spread, and is found in some of the languages in
the extremity of Siberia. Crank. — crankle. — Crinkle. ..."
8. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"Spec, flyer, blow (chiefly in "sidewinder"). wind, n. curve (contextual), turn,
twist; epec. twine, meander, coil, circuit, curl, curling, roll, crankle ..."
9. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"To crankle, (krang'-kl) ra To break into unequal surfaces, or angles.
CRANNIED, (kran'-ne-ed) o. Full of chinks. ..."
10. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"1.148; cranks, pi. bends, turnings, Two Noble Kinsmen, i. 2. 28; Spenser, FQ vii.
7. 52. crankle, to twist and turn about. Drayton, Pol. vii. 198; xii. ..."
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